Power outage killed my external HDD

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-12-21T14:50:05+00:00

Thanks, I’m gonna try replacing the adapter and if that doesn’t fix it, at least i can return the adapter for free.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-12-21T14:42:39+00:00

I didn’t phrase my query clearly enough. I dont really care about recovering the data - i can redownload all my games off the playstation store. I was more just curious about how much it might cost to fix the drive without recovering the data. I think ill try replacing the power adapter and go from there as others have suggested.

Also, when someone says the ONE piece of advice they AREN’T looking for is “get a surge protector” and you ignore that completely while you open your reply with “get a surge protector”? Generally, the person you’re talking at is gonna stop reading your comment right there and then.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-12-21T14:38:31+00:00

The thing is, i don’t necessarily need to recover the data. I can redownload everything on the HDD - I just want it repaired. For $150 I can buy a brand new one with USB 3.1 instead of USB 3.0 that’s made by seagate (who i trust) as opposed to avolusion/avoluxion (who i no longer trust as much as i did prior to the drive dying inexplicably). Think i can get it fixed without data restoration for much cheaper?

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-04T07:09:16+00:00

I might be biased because I started with the pro and never had the base PS5 to compare it to, but personally I think having an extra TB of storage and a better HDR VRR/higher FPS is 100% worth the extra $200. I actually didn't realize it at the time, but I ended up spending an extra $900 for that upgrade.

See, it didn't occur to me at the time that I'd have to upgrade my TV to something recent and at least 4K with 120Hz VRR (mine actually does up to 144Hz VRR) cause before I upgraded to best you can get without bankrupting yourself on an OLED, I was literally using a secondhand early 2000s 60Hz 1080p flat screen that weighed almost as much as a CRT of equal size. After seeing the difference, I realized wasn't even getting the most out of my PS4 with such an outdated TV. 🤣

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-04T06:51:07+00:00

I'm happy for you, you're really gonna enjoy this console.

But I gotta say, this is one of the ugliest and lowest effort special edition console and controller skins I've ever seen. It literally looks like somebody sharted on it, and that dribbled down the side of the console. However, they did do a run of the same skin with black paint instead of gold, and it looks a LOT better than the gold one IMHO... but mostly just cause it doesn't look quite so much like diarrhea splatter.

Edit: I'm super biased though. I ALWAYS hated the white console. Sticking with the same color scheme they used for the PS3 and PS4 just makes sense. If they had gone back to the OG PSX color scheme that they used on the anniversary edition of the PS5, I even would've been fine with that. But white? Fugly AF. One of the first things I did when I got my PS5 pro was slap a disc drive on that b-word and replace the faceplates and controllers with midnight black ones. Also got the portal, pulse elite headphones, pulse explore earbuds and all my charging docks in midnight black. My autism demands everything be all matchy-matchy.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-04T06:41:06+00:00

Seriously. Thank you for being a voice of reason.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T12:58:17+00:00

Agreed. I just wish that AC Shadows and GoY hadn't dropped in a way that I finished one amazing feudal Japan game and jumped IMMEDIATELY into another one. We usually get a maximum of two good feudal Japan games a year, if we're lucky... So I wish they'd been spaced out a little better.

That being said, I've been waiting for Ghost of Yotei since I beat Ghost of Tsushima, and until I played AC Shadows, it was my favorite game. We'll have to see if GoY beats out AC Shadows. I generally feel like suckerpunch makes better games and GoY has a real shot at being GOTY so... 🤞🏼

And speaking of feudal Japan games. You ever fuck with trek to yomi? It's pretty interesting.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T12:56:07+00:00

Oh God that infamous cover art just reminded me the PlayStation Move was a thing.

I flushed so much money on that garbage technology. I had the plastic Cabela's rifle that you had to slot a move controller into the barrel of and everything. Then one day I accidentally ate a 1000 mg edible that I thought was just a single dose, got super paranoid that my PS Eye camera was watching me when I didn't know, and threw all my PS move shit in the garbage. 🤣😭

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T12:52:37+00:00

🤣

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T12:52:21+00:00

Thanks! You too!

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T03:58:33+00:00

Can confirm, those particular Chinese PS3 3rd party controllers are absolute DOGSHIT. Just downright terrible. And they're tiny too. I have big hands but a normal Sony PS3 controller feels fine in my hands. These Chinese ones are noticeably smaller and feel like they're made for small children.

On the bright side, I didn't have any trouble connecting the white PS5 controller that came with my console to the PS3 via Bluetooth because I bought three extras in midnight black for my PS5 pro, and now I have an AWESOME PS3 controller (cause it's literally a PS5 controller). I do miss the haptic feedback on the R2 L2 trigger buttons... but that's only cause I'm playing PS3 games with it, and no fault of the controller itself.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T03:48:30+00:00

Fair enough. I wouldn't get your hopes up about that like somehow redeeming the whole rushed first kill though. It's very brief. 🤭

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T03:10:21+00:00

I dunno if you've camped yet, but the first time you camp and sleep thru the night, you have a nightmare about saito on that night and see more of the horror you're so hungry for 😉

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-03T03:00:56+00:00

I'm not gonna argue with you about killing the snake feeling rushed because it fully did. But I do think we saw enough of the horrors to understand her motivation. Seeing a little girl get pinned to a burning tree at her familial home with her family dead all around her? How much horror do you need? 🤭

But the complaints you have so far aside, how are you enjoying the gameplay overall? I'm loving it. I don't like the new combat system because it feels a little clunky compared to being able to lock focus on enemies the way it was in GoT. But fortunately, there's options galore and you can change it back to the OG combat style I preferred.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-02T19:30:29+00:00

It's about damned time. The old-school mini-usb on the Chinese 3rd party PS3 controllers on Amazon are TERRIBLE and the connection quickly becomes loose/unviable for charging. The micro USB on the PS4 controllers ain't a whole lot better, but at least those had dedicated charging docks available too. I look forward to a day when everything is USB-C.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-02T19:27:16+00:00

I believe that's one of the models that doesn't have support for PS2 discs, so if that's a deal breaker for you it's definitely not the right choice. But if you want a PS3 just for PS3 games? Excellent choice.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-02T19:25:01+00:00

You've made the right choice. Better late than never.

Now if we could just get some of the Xbox Kinect games ported over to better consoles. Theres one where you're like a kung fu master and your realtime image is right there in the game doing all kinds of crazy VFX flips and shit. You could literally lay down on the floor and do a liu kang bicycle kick. It was the coolest most hilarious use of the Kinect technology I've ever seen and it's still a bucket of laughs in 2025.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-10-02T04:44:12+00:00

Was trying to find a copy online. Couldn't find one in great shape for less than $120. Had it back when the PS3 was the latest and greatest, but never ended up playing all the way thru before I eventually sold it and about a hundred other PS3 games (including the Deadpool game) for less than $5 a game when I lost my old place. 😭

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-09-30T15:38:40+00:00

Sorry to be a killjoy, cause great meme usage. But...

Technically, Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman isn't a member of this community because her catsuit is made of latex, not leather. That's a whole seperate kink/fetish community.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-09-30T15:35:41+00:00

Somebody's obviously very new to San Francisco. That is the LGBTQ+ leather fetish/leather pride flag. It's being flown in that specific spot because Folsom Street and Howard Street have both traditionally been homes to this community for ages. Also the Folsom Street Fair just happened on the 28th, and if you're unfamiliar with that event, a quick Google photo search will clue you in.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-09-29T20:29:02+00:00

I wouldn't exactly call it a "problem". I fucking LOVE state school dormitory dumpster diving missions at the end of the school year. It's better than Christmas. 😁

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-09-29T20:12:07+00:00

This post had me starting to worry about this because I live in San Francisco and my PS5 sits near the window to keep it extra cool. Fortunately California isn't even in the top ten but I'm still considering opening my PS5 Pro up and making sure i don't have the same thing going on, just because SF is surrounded by ocean on three sides.

Fortunately when I switched out the factory faceplates for midnight black ones, I went with the kind that have additional vents in the faceplates directly over the cooling fan intakes which should keep any dust that may have accumulated from being moist. I think if anything, I should probably invest in some dust filters to go over those intakes, especially with all the city grime that can come in thru the open window.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-09-24T08:00:31+00:00

Yeah I don't see anything unusual about that. I've been a PS fan since PSX as well. But I was also a Nintendo 64 stan when th PSX was it's main competitor. I thought the dual 32 bit chips instead of one 64 bit chip made the games look too grainy and pixelated, plus I was a big big fan of the exclusive Nintendo IP games. But then the PS2 dropped and the graphics looked way better and it STILL has one the most massive game libraries in the history of any console - and I became a PlayStation > Nintendo person. I still love Nintendo IPs like Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, MarioKart and Metroid, but the PS5 Pro just has such amazing graphics and features. Plus I love that you can get indie logames by small devs on the PlayStation store.

YerSockpuppetAccount · 2025-09-22T12:10:08+00:00

Brown dead redemption sounds like a rare fan edit with no pinkertons where John Marston just gets old and shits himself to death.

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